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The Looming Worldwide Food Shortage
Home Gardeners Unite! The alarms have been going off for years while relatively wealthy people in the so-called ‘First World’ kept hitting the snooze alarm. The annoyance level has been rising in...
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Cash Crops: Growing Money
Part I: Evaluating Possibilities – Fresh Herbs In view of the looming worldwide food shortage and ever-increasing cost of food at the grocery store, I’m going to have to put all my terraces to work...
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The Herb Market Money Quest
Part II [Part I: Cash Crops: Growing Money] Having done some thinking and a little bit of homework on the subject of making in-season money with culinary herbs that can grow well in my garden, there...
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Best Market for Organic Herbs?
Part III [Part II: The Herb Market Money Quest] [Part I: Cash Crops: Growing Money] Time to consider the actual markets for the organic herbs I’m planning to grow as a cash crop in my garden, on my...
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Food Crisis Hits America
Granny’s been posting quite a bit through the year about the Looming Worldwide Food Shortage, what’s causing it, the politics involved, and its serious sociological effects as riots have broken out in...
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Why Do We Waste So Much Food?
We all know prices are rising faster than many people can keep up. There is a looming worldwide food shortage, and it’s it’s hitting America too. Part of that is the rapid rise in fuel costs, which...
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Beware: Organic Fraud!
Another Good Reason to Grow Your Own The Organic Consumers Association alerts us this week that the USDA Admits Organic Fraud is Increasing, and that fully half – 15 of 30 – of their ‘accredited’...
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The Annual Planning Game
’09 Garden Catalogs Arrive! In the after-holiday post-glut bleak January doldrums, our gardening lives are once again enlightened with hope for the coming season with delivery of those ever popular new...
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Update from the ‘Stead
Heather @ A Handmade Life I know, I know. There’s Town Hall Madness, high dudgeon political theater, a boycott of Whole Foods, and it’s hot in August. But there aren’t any Town Halls by my rep this...
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2nd Harvest at the White House
Michelle Obama’s organic garden at the White House enjoyed its second harvest this week, bringing in another 220 pounds of food to add to the previous harvest’s 740 pounds, for a grand total of 960...
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